Shop-tool rack



M. RUSSIAN SHOP TOOL RACK Jan. 14; 1930.

Filed June 18, 1927 Patented Jan. 14, 1930 UNITE STATES MICHAEL RUSSIAN,or BINGI-IAMTON,1\TEW YORK SHOP-TOOL RACK Application filed. June 18,

My invention relates to improvements in shop tool racks for blacksmithand machinists tools, and especially adapted to railroad machine shops.It has for itsobject to provide a portable and conveniently accessibletool rack for machinists which may be simultaneously used by a pluralityof machinists, and be readily moved to different locations in the shopand may be convenient for use.

With these objects in view my invention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafterfully described and pointed out in the claim, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my device.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the tool rack.

Fig. 3 is a side view partly in cross section of a fragmentary part ofmy device.

Fig. 4 is a side view partly in cross section of a fragmentary part ofmy device.

Fig. 5 is a side view of a fragmentary part of my device.

The same reference characters denote like parts in each of the severalfigures of the drawings.

In carrying out my invention, I provide a central vertical standardsupport A, the lower end of the support is mounted in any convenientmanner on the legs 2, 2, 2, and at the lower end of the legs I may havemounted casters 3, 3, 3, or other means of rotatable support. In the topof standard A I have a pivot recess 5' slidably and rotatably mounted onthe standard A as clearly shown in Fig. 3, I have a tubular sleeve Bhaving a closure at its upper end provided with an opening therein, 6,and pivotally mounted on the upper end of standard A, I have thestandard 7, passing thru the opening 6 in sleeve B and having at itslower end the conical pivot member 5, resting in the recess 5. Ontheupper end of the standard 7, I have the tool pan 8. Mounted on the outersurface of, and near the lower end of sleeve B, I have a set of upwardly projecting slanting braces 8'. Mounted in any convenient manneracross the top of sleeve B, and intersecting at right angles, to eachother, I have the horizontally projecting step braces 10, 10, 10, theouter ends of 0116 01' more employees.

1927. Serial No. 199,843.

which project downward for a space in the slanting portions 11, 11, 11,and again proj ect horizontally outward for a space in the portions 12,12, 12. The under side of the portions 12, 12, or step braces rest uponand are supported by the lugs 9, 9 on the upper end of the slantingbraces 8, 8'; mounted on the upper surface of the step braces 10, 10, Ihave the parallel outer and inner rings 13, 13, spaced apart from eachother, forming the curved slot 13, and mounted on the upper side of thestep braces 12, 12, I have the outer and inner parallel rings 14, 14,spaced apart from each other, and forming the curved slot 14.

As a further part of my device, on the outer edge of rings 14, I have aplurality of open horizontally curved recesses 16, 16, and also mountedon the under side of the ring formations 14, 14, I have the hanger 17,on which I have mounted the vertical open lug projections 18. In theoperation of my device I mount the larger tools in the rack with handlesdownward, passing thru the slot between the ring and the heads of thetools resting on and supported by the rings. The tools, known as S,wrenches, are supported by the handles being inserted in the curved lugprojections 16 or 17. The smaller tools are placed in the pan 8; thetools thus slidably inserted in the curved slots are easily removed andreplaced, any tool desired, or any group or kind of tool can be reachedby the turning of the rack, two or more employees may use the same rackat the same time and reach the tools required; by turning the frame, anytool is brought within easy reach of the machinist, and on any side'ofthe rack; the tools are more easily replaced by being inserted in theelongated slot than thru a single circular opening as the work ofseveral or groups of machinists change from one place to another in ashop, the rack is easily moved to any given point desired by Having thusdescribed my invention, what I claim as new and for which I desireLetters Patent is as follows:

In a tool rack for machinists a vertical standard portably supported atits lower end and provided at its upper endwith a conical recess, asleeve slidably and rotatably mounted on the standard and per end with aclosure aving an opening 7 therein, an extension in the upper end of thestandard projecting through the opening in the ew, con c l P O mem e 'ath lowerendof the extension on which the 010- 7 sure in the sleeve rests,said pivot member he:

ing disposed in the recess at the upper end of the standard,horizontally extending cross' arms mounted at right angles to each otheron the sleeve, horizontally arranged spaced apart rings mounted on theupper? surface of the cross arms and means for supporting the outer--endsv of the cross arms.

In testimony whereof I have aifixed my signature. 7

MICHAEL- SI AN.

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